♪ Monkey Chow, For a Full Week, 'Till He's Full♪ ... um... not sure where to go with that.

Ladies and gentlemen, this is the most brilliantly absurd thing I have seen in months.

Imagine going to the grocery store only once every 6 months. Imagine paying less than a dollar per meal. Imagine never washing dishes, chopping vegetables or setting the table ever again. It sounds pretty good, doesn't it?

But can a human subsist on a constant diet of pelletized, nutritionally complete food like puppies and monkeys do? For the good of human kind, I'm about to find out. On June 3, 2006, I began my week of eating nothing but monkey chow: "a complete and balanced diet for the nutrition of primates, including the great apes."

Behold, The Monkey Chow Diaries.

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